| Heading: |
Work Capability Assessment |
| Question ID: |
1791228 |
| UIN: |
43262 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-01 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5221 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Steve Witherden
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Steve Witherden
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how her Department will determine which claimants will be exempt from the new baseline expectation of engagement or work-related requirements once the Work Capability Assessment is scrapped. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
163 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Sir Stephen Timms
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| Answering Member handle: |
stephenctimms
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@stephenctimms
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| Answer text: |
We recognise that some people may not be able to engage with new baseline expectations. We are consulting on how we should determine who should be subject to attend meetings only rather than also have wider conditionality requirements, and how we should d... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |